James Joyce

James Joyce

male, deceased (1941)
writer, agnostic, modernist novel, Stephen Dedalus, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man…modernist literature, modernist
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He...
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
death by drowning, Mrs. Dalloway, suicide by drowning, Women novelist, stephen, English women writer…modernist, modernist literature, Modernist writer
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

male (Hailey, Idaho, United States)
poet, imagism, Critic, American expatriate in Italy, expatriate, Hamilton College alumni…modernist, modernist poetry
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote,...
Man Ray

Man Ray

male, deceased (1976)
Jewish American, painter, fashion photography, modernist, assemblage, photography
Man Ray (August 27, 1890-November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as...
Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

male, deceased (1955)
From st. louis, missouri, Modernism, American modernist poet, from Hartford, Connecticut, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, From St. Louis…modernist
Wallace Stevens was a major American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania
Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer

male, deceased (1981) (Wayland, Massachusetts, United States)
Hungarian furniture designer, American furniture designer, Jewish person, Jewish, furniture, Hungarian-American…modernist, Modernist architect
Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of...
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

female, deceased (1972)
Philadelphia writer, Bryn Mawr College alumni, modernist, Modernism, poet, writer…Modernist writer, American modernist poet
Marianne Moore was a Modernist American poet and writer.
I. M. Pei

I. M. Pei

male, 92 years old
architect, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, American, ieoh ming pei, steel, concrete…modernist, Modernist architect
Ieoh Ming Pei (b. April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American architect, known as the...
Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers

male, 76 years old
Old Johnians, Stirling Prize laureate, Labour Party politician, Pritzker Prize winner, From florence, Architectural Association School of Architecture…Modernist architect, modernist
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He...
Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

male, 84 years old
Towards a New Architecture, graham foundation, Vers une Architecture, Functional, functionalism, modernist
Robert Charles Venturi (June 25, 1925 -) is an award winning American architect. Based in Philadelphia, he worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis...